A La Carte (5/14)

  • Tim Challies
  • 05/14/07
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Monday May 14, 2007

Church: Paul has a few good words about Francis Beckwith’s return to Rome.

Politics: An article in the SF Chronicle talks about how the Democrats will be looking to draw young Christians in the upcoming election. “People want to go to church because they know what they can do about poverty, about Darfur, about the environment.”

Toys: The original creator of G.I. Joe is now creating a line of Bible-based toys. “This time, instead of a series of military-themed action figures, toy mogul Don Levine has begun selling a series of Bible-based action figures depicting champions from the Old Testament.”

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a comment from Jeri • 05/14 @ 10:42am
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It really grieves me to think about young professing Christians being caught up in a gospel whose main emphasis is on social redemption, rather than on the redemption bought for us by our Lord on the Cross. But that seems to be what is happening, I see it firsthand here in my own community. This is definitely a sign of the spiritual battle we are facing. We need to pray that God would be gracious to grant that the truth be preached boldly and fearlessly, and on the front lines, by those He has sent to preach it!

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a comment from Rose Mawhorter • 05/14 @ 12:58pm
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Did anybody else notice that all of the bible action figures were white? I’m happy though that at least the females were modest. A little while ago there were some similar action figures that had a Sampson and Delilah couple. Delilah was horrible (as she probably was in real life) and even had a whip. It had weird connotations that I don’t think were appropriate. These ones are much better.

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a comment from ianmcn • 05/15 @ 5:35am

I think it was Harold Snyder that said something like: “The redemption of persons is the centre of God’s plan, but the circumference of that plan is nothing short of World Transformation.”

That’s the way I look at it. God’s plan involves social change, political change, economic change - even environmental change; But that is not the centre. The important thing is to keep those two aspects of God’s plan together in their right place not reject the one in preference to the other (or in reaction to an over-emphasis on the other). It’s not either/or but both!